I have put in for the first lieutenancy, so we won't run foul of each other.

Let us `hitch teams'." "With all my heart," said I.
"You came in with that long-bearded hunter.

Is he your friend ?" "He is." "Then I can tell you that among these fellows he's a `whole team, and a cross dog under the waggon' to boot.

See him! he's at it already." I had noticed Lincoln in conversation with several leather-legging gentry like himself, whom I knew from their costume and appearance to be backwoodsmen.

All at once these saturnine characters commenced moving about the room, and entering into conversation with men whom they had not hitherto deigned to notice.
"They are canvassing," said Clayley.
Lincoln, brushing past, whispered in my ear, "Cap'n, I understan' these hyur critters better'n you kin.